ACPE Course List

This intensive course deploys a dynamic team of instructors to help you develop your own personal blueprint for leading and growing your organization, department or agency. You'll discover your own "true north" and emerge from the course with an effective framework for balancing competing disciplines and resources by utilizing top line strategies that impact the bottom line.

Learn to apply advanced financial principles and concepts to decision-making. This course builds upon the fundamental principles presented in the prerequisite course, Financial Decision Making. Decipher the information provided in cash flow statements to make better management decisions. Understand alternative cost allocation techniques to improve your financial choices.

You’ve had an overview of health care laws and how they pertain to organizations. Now, work through the difficult situations you face in your role as a physician leader. Using case studies and role plays based on actual situations, you’ll make tough decisions and deal with their consequences. You’ll also examine today's hottest health care legal issues like making sense of the complexities and the changing landscape of allied health professionals and navigating through the legal minefield of hospital-physician financial relationships.

How do you define value? Once it’s defined how do you measure it? Value can vary from organization to organization. In this course you will learn how to plan ahead and build metrics before system implementation that will provide the means to measure the level of success post-live.

As a physician executive, it is essential that you have an understanding of what business plans are, the process of developing plans, the questions that business plans must directly address, the analytical tools that are employed in preparing a plan, and the way that the business plan document should be structured. This program will assist physician leaders in taking a leadership position is the development of business plans for new programs, projects, and ventures for existing organizations as well as for the development of entirely new businesses.

Will you be ready for this influx of new employees with different motivations, different strengths and different expectations? This course is designed to help you navigate this new landscape. You’ll learn the basics of hiring, training and managing these new members of your team.

No one can dispute that there are quality and safety problems in health care. Many of the problems are well-characterized and information technology can contribute to a solution. Rule-based clinical decision support is has been documented to improve care in many instances. This course looks at the potential benefits of CDS and its limitations.

The CMO-CIO partnership is key to the success of organizational information technology. This course examines the current business case for information technology in health care and the complementary roles of the chief information officer and the chief medical officer. This is a course in the Health IT Leadership Certificate Program

Learn what skills and competencies are required to coach and mentor physicians to higher performance. Move through the art of influence and techniques of skilled questioning, motivation and behavioral change. Take away your own coaching toolkit.

Effective communication is not an inborn talent. Nor is it a superficial script to help improve patient satisfaction scores. Rather, there are learnable, clearly defined communication skills that can help even the most experienced physician leader work more effectively with others and build collaborative relationships.

Implementation is only the beginning in integrating clinical systems. Effective communication to all stakeholder groups is a key element in ensuring the project’s success This course explains how to develop and execute a communication and change management strategy to support organization-wide education and training.

A good controlled medical terminology will allow for local modifications without the terms, without compromising the integrity or the validity of the core concepts or the terminology. This course focuses of semantic interoperability to transmit information between computer systems and providers.

This seminar will build the skills required to master the toughest, most high-stakes challenges physician leaders face. Physicians who work in environments that are increasingly stressful face a stark choice. They can either retreat from the political, business, and clinical stresses, and risk isolation, powerlessness, and burnout or take on these stressful situations and create a better, safer environment. This seminar will show how to take on and resolve these stressful situations.

Each 30-minute online module frames key concepts intuitively, applies them to specific health care settings, and offers up practical guidance. Clinicians who complete this curriculum will have a fundamental understanding of physician organization and leadership needed to navigate their health systems.

This course describes the history and elements of e-prescribing. Ambulatory and in-patient applications of information technology are reviewed.

An overview of health care laws and how they pertain to organizations. Includes an examination of today's hottest health care legal issues: medical error liability, managed care contracting, patient rights, and equal opportunity in the workplace.

As a physician executive, are you equipped to deal with today's complex and perplexing ethical issues? This program will help you take a leadership role in developing processes for resolving ethical issues facing physicians, patients and their families.

Each 30-minute online module frames key concepts intuitively, applies them to specific health care settings, and offers up practical guidance. Clinicians who complete this curriculum will have a fundamental understanding of physician organization and leadership needed to navigate their health systems.

Physicians are trained to be autonomous in their thinking and actions. But health care is a “team sport,” requiring the ability to be both a team member, and sometimes a team leader.

As health care providers continue to leverage technology to improve patient care and services, the risk of a data breach grows greater. This course explores current and emerging trends in health care security, privacy and regulatory compliance.

Data critical to informed medical decision making is often unavailable. It may be in a paper chart, geographically remote or in a format that is not compatible. Health information exchange solves many of these problems. Learn the background and history of national efforts to advance HIE and hear the NYCLIX story.

This course builds on that foundation through a series of practical applications of reliability concepts. Participants will work through actual case studies in the application human reliability methods and receive the knowledge & skills necessary to apply these methods to their care setting. This program will also show how several healthcare systems are now using reliability bundles (human error prevention behaviors) to improve quality outcomes and have reduced serious events by 48-91% in two years.

Why are U.S. healthcare costs rising without a corresponding increase in quality? Why do so many strategies fail to manage cost and quality?

Information systems and standardization are the keys to creating positive acceptable improvements in care. Learn how new technology can benefit care providers and patients simultaneously, overcoming the cultural barriers to acceptance of these changes, and the solutions needed in the context of informatics tools.

Implementation of a clinical system provides the opportunity to examine and improve workflow. In this course you will learn why clinical process redesign is integral to an implementation project, how and why to develop and incorporate evidence-based practices and how to formulate a go-live support strategy for physicians.

Recognize how power, authority and perception play an active role in influencing individual and organizational behavior. Learn how to influence the behavior of professionals and understand the causes of organizational and specialty turf conflicts.

This is a course in the Health IT Leadership Certificate Program. Health information technology is a top national priority to improve quality and patient safety, care coordination and efficiency. This course explains the history of biomedical informatics, gives the details of each major informatics domain and how they relate to the national health information technology build-out.

Each 30-minute online module frames key concepts intuitively, applies them to specific health care settings, and offers up practical guidance. Clinicians who complete this curriculum will have a fundamental understanding of physician organization and leadership needed to navigate their health systems.

This course will explore key trends, developments, and guidelines that will help shape clinical practice in the future. Learn how to describe the elements of various clinical integration models e.g. employment, foundation, medical home and accountable care organizations and examine critical success factors, payment methods and co-management agreements.

This course is designed to provide an introduction to design, management and strategy of integrated health systems. Learn to identify the economic issues driving the integration of health care delivery systems and define the characteristics of a successful integrated health system.

The cost of integrating care, pay for performance, revenue sharing, value-based payment and price transparency are among the factors that affect integrated health system financial performance. This session will investigate how recent regulatory policy initiatives, IRS and FTC regulations, and Stark and Baby Stark impact successful fiscal outcomes in physician hospital integration. 

To create a successful system, physician and administrative leadership must be tightly coupled moving in a unified direction. This course offers instructions on bringing together diverse cultures and philosophies to create a shared agenda.

Only hospitals that are tightly aligned with a critical mass of physicians—whether they are employed, contracted or independent—will be able to organize their delivery systems to meet consumer demands for price, quality and efficiency. Learn the keys to achieving alignment.

Learn the governance skills you need to build consensus and lead with confidence. Group practice board members will gain invaluable information and tools during this "hand-on" educational experience. With our faculty experts, you'll learn to make the decisions that will move your group ahead of the competition.

Know your people, know your culture, create a strategy and move the agenda. Learn these tenets of leadership and you can apply them in any information technology project. This course describes the fundamentals of effective leadership: clear communication, conflict resolution and change management.

The key to surviving and thriving as a physician leader is your ability to lead and manage strategic innovation and change.

This course reviews the legal liability of Electronic Health Records (EHRs) related to patient safety, documentation and medical malpractice, billing practices and meaningful use.

Master the tools for effective decision-making, group dynamics, running meetings, dealing with disruptive individuals, and other every day challenges in management. Understand why there are so many managers and so few leaders, and make decisions that really work.

This is the definitive guide to managing medical professionals. Finding and attracting the best candidates for positions in your organization, evaluating physicians' performance, and motivating your staff are just a few of the topics covered.

The ability to apply financial principles and concepts to decision making is crucial for physicians managing their own practice, organizational department, or group. This course provides the basics of budgeting, managing costs, reporting results, and some of the unique aspects of accounting for health care organizations.

This course provides an overview of medical staff leadership, including best practices for leading effective and efficient medical staffs, medical staff structure and management, governance, and physician-hospital relations.

This course provides an overview of the best credentialing and privileging practices.

This course provides an introduction to finance — the vocabulary, translating reports and the economics of revenue and cost.

Know when meetings are really necessary and structure meetings that yield clear results, and deal with “no-shows,” “late shows” and disruptive personalities. Master how to use power effectively, and build support for ideas, goals and missions. 

This course focuses on the physician leader's role in reducing medical errors, improving quality and increasing patient safety.

Gain the skills to be a more effective leader and get the most out of the administrative side of your job. Effectively manage people, meetings, finance, quality and organizational politics. Learn to establish standards of behavior and performance, including managing poor performance. Run more effective meetings. Understand hospital finance: the vocabulary, translating reports and the economics of revenue and cost.

This course focuses on how to connect people, resources, information and performance of different professions and specialties. Even with very different agendas, health care providers can present a united front.

This course gives you techniques to achieve long-lasting change in an organization.

Each 30-minute online module frames key concepts intuitively, applies them to specific health care settings, and offers up practical guidance. Clinicians who complete this curriculum will have a fundamental understanding of physician organization and leadership needed to navigate their health systems.

You've gone live with your EHR but now what? You know the journey is not over it is just beginning. Learn how to move from the transition phase to the optimization phase.

Do you understand the critical elements in your organization that contribute to successful IT change? Organizational priorities dictate organizational resources. This course defines several components of organizational planning: environmental analysis, readiness assessment, solution and clinician needs analysis, and governance and leadership and how each can make or break an IT project.

This course describes the epidemiology of safety and safety theory, how IT can improve safety and the specific technologies used to transform care.

The Physician in Management seminar is the first step toward becoming a better physician leader. For those looking toward an advanced degree or certification as a physician executive, this course lays an important foundation and fulfills both core and elective requirements.

Join the nearly 20,000 physicians who have completed ACPE's Physician in Management (PIM) Seminar and get a solid introduction to the business of medicine.

Want to attend the full Physician in Management Seminar live but can’t come for all five days? Consider ACPE’s blended learning version of the course, the Weekend Physician in Management Seminar, or contact us at (education@acpe.org) to build your own blended learning experience.

Build solid communication skills that are required to gain influence, promote cooperation and engage top performers.

Learn key financial concepts and basic economic principles that will earn you respect from administration and admiration from clinicians. 

When leaders learn to use interpersonal skills, they are able to apply them in a wide variety of specific activities, including leading teams, coaching and managing conflict.

Understand techniques for marketing health care and staying ahead of the competition including differential advantage, target markets and relationship marketing.

Learn proven techniques to use in every negotiation process and come out further ahead than you ever thought possible.

Health care organizations are increasingly adopting quality improvement methods and techniques to minimize waste, decrease errors, increase efficiency, and ultimately improve quality of care. Gain clarity about what you are trying to accomplish, what changes you can make that will result in an improvement, and how you will know that the improvement has occurred.

The Physician in Management seminar is the first step toward becoming a better physician leader. For those looking toward an advanced degree or certification as a physician executive, this course lays an important foundation and fulfills both core and elective requirements.

Join the nearly 20,000 physicians who have completed ACPE's Physician in Management (PIM) Seminar and get a solid introduction to the business of medicine.

Come for 2-1/2 days, over a weekend, and complete the first 4 modules. Then, complete the remaining 2 modules in the comfort and convenience of your home or office.

Each 30-minute online module frames key concepts intuitively, applies them to specific health care settings, and offers up practical guidance. Clinicians who complete this curriculum will have a fundamental understanding of physician organization and leadership needed to navigate their health systems.

This course focuses on giving you the tools and techniques to save time, look professional, gain credibility, engage your audience, and sell your message.

Present Like a Pro focuses on being seen, heard, and making a difference when giving a presentation. BONUS! Your experience doesn’t stop at the end of the presentation. You get the unique opportunity to create a video of yourself delivering a presentation and submit it for faculty critique.

Go beyond the fundamentals of quality and investigate advanced applications of the best quality systems and practices. This unique course requires previous education and experience in quality so that the group discussions and assignments are dynamic and focused on moving beyond theory into real world applications that work.

Clinical initiatives. New business programs. Integration task forces. Quality improvement processes. With no clear scope, critical success factors, budget or schedule, it is no surprise that so many health care projects fail to meet their stated goals.

Experts say some conflict is healthy, and they're right. When not managed well, however, conflict can become disruptive and lead to medical errors, poor patient satisfaction, increased cost and higher turnover. Learn the skills you need to use conflict productively.

This new course delivers skills and competencies in patient safety and high reliability organizations. Physician leaders will learn to improve team performance at both the bedside and in the C-suite. You will identify the types of waste and inefficiency in work processes and hear techniques to streamline inefficient processes and techniques for better performance.

Social networking is here to stay, and mHealth care (“mobile” health care) is the wave of the future. To stay current, attract patients and be effective, physicians must embrace this new technology and help their organizations recognize the importance of social networking.

This course will provide physician executives with new ways to think, manage and lead, and help you help your team to think differently and more effectively. It will give you an edge over your competition as well as a cooperative edge with your colleagues. Participants will use real-world scenarios through activity and participation to expand their own thinking and that of their project teams.

Learn strategic thinking concepts and tools, including a ‘Strengths, Weaknesses, Opportunities, Threats (SWOT) analysis and scenario planning. You’ll walk away with the knowledge to formulate a strategy and the ability to execute it.

Gain the skills and confidence to help yourself and others who are facing failure to work through it rather than avoid it. Master a new, highly adaptive approach to failure that distinguishes great leaders from mediocre ones.

Learn how to assess your organization's current financial health and use that knowledge to make informed decisions for the future. This advanced course includes tools for better budgeting, improving cash flow and generating higher rates of returns.

This course demonstrates, using informatics, how to positively impact the safety, value and appropriateness of health behavior by asking the right questions.

Because of their unique roles in patient care, physicians must be leaders in the area of performance improvement. Understand your role in supporting high quality health care. Discover how to design and implement systems that drive better patient and business outcomes. Apply real-world concepts to improve quality at your organization.

This 3 hour course will address the current impetus to transition from volume-based to value-based reimbursement, and the profound implications that has for the future of medicine in general, and physician leaders in particular.

This course is designed for seasoned physician executives — Fellows, Certified Physician Executives or those who hold advanced degrees in management. Held once per year at ACPE’s Annual Meeting, the Vanguard program is specifically tailored for members who are looking for the latest information on cutting edge topics. ACPE’s Vanguard members give their input and help design the course that will be offered at the meeting. In the past, this course has tackled everything from integration to Appreciative Inquiry; quality improvement to systems thinking.

This course focuses on correct grammar and usage for business professionals.